I've always haunted the local library - still do - butwhen we were going through some bad times several yearsago, I discovered a whole new classification of booksand tapes. Motivational and inspirational ones.

After a bad day, I could immerse myself in "Real Magic"by Wayne Dyer, and know that there were possibilitiesout there after all. This book taught me thatmeditation doesn't need to be done in a specific waybut that you can simply sit by yourself quietly, for 30to 60 minutes and you'll come up with numerous excitingsolutions!

Bob Proctor's "You were Born Rich" was my constantcompanion for many years. It's dog-eared now, but ittaught me that riches include many things in our livesbesides money and we need to be grateful for each andevery one.

Every time I drove my car I listened to cassette tapes,including Brian Tracy's "The Psychology of Success"tapes or "Possibity Thinking" by Robert H. Schuller andsomehow, it gradually dawned on me that this assistanceis always present and available to us in our lives, ingood times and in bad.

Over the years, any challenges that I have always giveway to hope and possibility when I pick up one of mybooks or tapes. Somehow, I can always open a book toany page and find a quote or a statement that 'speaksto me' and changes the way that I'm thinking.

The same is true of the books that I read today. "TheSeat of the soul" by Gary Zukov or Dr.Wayne Dyer's"There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem" and"How to know God" by Deepak Chopra - along with massesof other material by the 'Motivational Masters' of ourtimes are all basically teaching us the same thing -that we are 'Spiritual Beings' with access to miraclesin our lives.

What I find really exciting about this is that all ofthese authors have in fact gone before me on theirspiritual paths and their legacy of books and tapes arenow my guideposts along my way.